Improvement in insect-bellows



E.co0K.

Insect Bellows.

N0.l49,99`5 Patented April 2l, 1874.

ETTED STATES 'EBENEZER COOK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN INSECT-BELLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,99 5, dated April21, 1874; application filed March 17, 1874.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EBENEZER Coon, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Insect-Bellows 5 and that thefollowing' is a full, clear, and eX- act description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, making aA part of this specification.

rlhis invention is in the nature of an improvement in an apparatus forinjecting line particles of substances obnoxious to insect life, andalso in the means hereinafter described of atomizing the insect-poison;and the invention consists in a bellows combined with a perforated tubeand a receptacle, strainer, and nozzle, as and for the purposehereinafter described.

It is well known that two great difficulties exist in distributing`powder obnoxious to insect life for the purpose of driving them out oftheir hiding-places and killing them. These difficulties are, Jrst, toget the powder sufficiently ine to enable it to penetrate every crevice,and to enable the insect to eat it, or, in fact, inhale it; and, second,to force the powder into the most minute crannies, and in any direction.These difficulties, it is believed, are fullyobviated by my invention,as will be seen from the following description and accompanyingdrawings, wherein the figure shows an edge view, partly in section,showing interior tube.

A is a hand-bellows of the ordinary con struction, having an opening inits pointed end, to which is affixed, in any suitable manner, acylindrical box, c, within which is fitted a valve, in such manner aswill allow it to open outward. Fastened to the box a. is a projectingtube, l). This tube has in it a series of perforations, c, near its baseand upper end. Tightly screwed to the base of the tube l) is areceptacle, B, terminating` at its front end in a nozzle, e, and with agauze strainer, f, at the base of the nozzle.

My device being constructed substantially as above described, it isoperated as follows: The receptacle B is unscrewed from the base of thepipe b, and any powder known to be fatal to insect life is placed withinit. The re ceptacle is then screwed in place again, and the bellowsworked in the ordinary manner, when the air will be forced into the tubeb and out of the openings c therein, agitating the whole mass of powderwithin the receptacle, the liner portions of which are forced throughthe gauze screen f, and out at the end of the nozzle c, into vanydirection or crevice it is desired to place it.

The valve in the cylindrical box a., opening only outward, does notinterfere with the free passage of air from the bellows into the tube b,but it does prevent the powder from working into the bellows andinterfering with its operation.

It will be seen from the foregoin description that by my device not onlydo the very finest particles or atoms of powder come within the inuenceof the driving-blast of the bellows, but they are readily forced out ofthe nozzle in any desired position or direction.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described bellows for distributing insect-powder, providedwith the perfo rated tube b, having a valve at its base, the

Vpowderreceptacle B, strainer j', and nozzle e,

all constructed, arranged, and operating as specified.

EBENEZER COOK. Witnesses:

G. M. PLYMPTON, H. L. WATTENBERG.

